horses – Pukeatua Farmstay

Fly free ‘The Real Slim Shady’

27 March 2023
animals, background, cheeky, content, death, family, farm, horses, rainbow, rusty, shady, water

Shady our little Bush Pegasus has peacefully crossed the rainbow bridge today. We are so glad he was able to go gracefully and peacefully with all of us and his best mate Rusty by his side.

Nature has decided it’s spring

1 September 2022
birds, cats, cheeky, dry, ducklings, ducks, eggs, farm, feed, flooding, goats, horses, mud, nature, night, rain, rescue, sun, twi, water, weather, winter

Apart from the usual winter farm activities, there has not been much exciting stuff happening. It’s been a typical winter with lots of rain, lots of mud but rather warm in comparison. It looks like nature has decided that it is spring.

Winter Solstice & Matariki

26 June 2022
background, box, christmas, content, cooking, ducks, eggs, family, farm, feed, goats, horses, la, land, nature, rats, scenery, shearing, sun, sunset, trapping, twi, weather, winter

The weather has turned from somewhat wet and warm to rather wet and cold. The horses have been rugged up just like the goats. The rodent infestation has become noticeable, so we started putting up more traps on top of the traps and bait stations we already had.

Water everywhere – in the midst of winter

24 July 2021
box, cats, cooking, ducks, eggs, fog, food, garden, horses, house, people, tree, water, weather, winter

It’s been rather wet, foggy and cold in the last couple of days. The cats spent more time inside and expressing a form of cabin fever when awake but they are mostly asleep.The horses are asking for more food, the chickens are hiding in their house and the ducks – well, the ducks are in their element.

Seasons: Bye Summer, hello Autumn

16 April 2021
animals, digger, family, feed, fire, firewood, fog, friends, geese, goats, horses, sea, shelter, valley, winter

The seasons are changing. Summer went and Easter and Autumn came around. We have been starting to prepare for winter to come.

Officially Summer – and how lovely it is

2 December 2020
animals, cats, dry, ducklings, ducks, grass, horses, kaipara, sky, valley, weather

The first days of summer greeted with a mixed bag of weather. The first day was coldish and still wet with quite some wind. But that all eased down on the second day which turned into a nice, dry and hot summer day featuring blue sky and green grass.

The animals, the rain and the fire

25 August 2020
animals, cats, cayuga, ducks, farm, feed, feeding, fire, firewood, grass, horses, house, kaipara, land, naughty, people, rain, scenery, sun, sunset, valley, weather

Who likes the weather when it’s raining and storming outside? No one – well, maybe the odd people that are happy that their grass is growing, like us humans inside. Oh, and the ducks! The ducks love it.

The 2020 newcomers

4 March 2020
abigail, agnes, angela, farm, horses, night, rain, shelter

It’s been a long time we had some cute calfies arriving here. Yesterday was the day 3x cute new calfies arriving. They walked down the driveway into the shelter and are now happily mixing and mingling with the horses.

Animals moving (themselves) around

9 November 2019
abigail, animals, grass, horses, naughty, rusty

Most animals stick to electric fences – our alpacas do not.

Spring mornings

12 September 2018
breakfast, ducks, fog, horses, sunrise

The early spring mornings here are foggy and cold but beautiful.

Horses ready for the next storm

28 April 2018
building, horses, night, rain, rusty, shady, shelter, water, weather

Another storm has been announced last night, so early this morning we finished the horse shelter area and moved the two boys over so they are going to have a more comfortable place during the day when the weather closes in.

New Building Projects

11 January 2018
building, feed, horses, house, mud, shelter, winter

The last winter has been so terribly wet and turned all paddocks into mud that we decided to have the horses in a shelter and feed them rather than having them wading through mud and effectively thrashing the paddocks.

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